Academic & Teaching Staff

• Urban Policy and Analysis
• Housing Studies
• Planning and Development
• Sustainability

• Bioethics and health care policy
• Confucian ethics and politics
• Comparative philosophy

• Public budgeting
• Performance management and budgeting
• E-government
• Citizen engagement
• Cross-sectoral collaboration and policy development

• Confucian democratic and constitutional theory
• Comparative political theory
• History of East Asian political thought
• Korean politics and political theory

• Pushback against democratic backsliding in Southeast Asia
• Authoritarian modernism in East Asia
• Presidentialism in Asia
• Dynastic Female Leaders in Asia

• Public sector innovation
• Digital governance/e-government
• Artificial intelligence governance, norms, ethics
• Social / citizen entrepreneurship and innovation
• Data science (incl. web dev, package dev)
• Computational and experimental methods

• Political Sociology
• Public Opinion
• Public Health
• Computational Social Sciences
• Digital Governance
• Science of Science
• Research Methodology

• Public management
• Strategic planning
• Strategic management
• Strategizing
• Neuro Public Administration
• Red Tape
• Administrative Burden

• Central-Local relations and politics: China, Hong Kong
• Public finance, education and government reforms in China
• Institutional and agency change processes
• Responsible governance in Asia
• Cross-border collaboration, tension, and politics
• Sustainable Development

International Relations and Development

Comparative Politics and Behaviour

• Environmental Financing, Sustainability
• Chinese Public Budgeting and Financial Management
• Performance Management and Program Evaluation

• Chinese foreign policy
• Chinese politics
• Geopolitics of AI
• Belt and Road Initiative
• Confucius Institutes

• Energy and Sustainability Economics
• Policy for Sustainable Resource Use
• Green Business & Sustainable Governance
• Climate Change Policy and Climate Risk Management
• Environmental Regulation and Governance 

• Migration and development
• Migration governance and mobility
• Vietnamese-Chinese relationships
• Vietnamese and Chinese diaspora
• Asian borderlands
• Food, culture and identity in Asia

 Current/Recent Research Projects

• Asian Migration and Diaspora
• Food Relations in Asia
• Diseasescape

• Urban sustainability and Sustainable Urban Planning
• Environmental management & Policies
• Industrial Ecology and Environmental system analysis
• Eco-industrial development (EID) and Eco-industrial parks (EIPs)
• Low-carbon city, Eco-city and Smart city

• Parliament and Legislative Politics
• Civil-Military Relations
• Democracy and Collective Action
• Myanmar/Burma, India

Political development

Comparative political institutions

Thailand/Southeast Asia

• Public Service Values and Performance
• Workplace Wellness
• Workforce Diversity

• Sustainable development governance
• Evidence-based policy design & analysis
• Socio-technological innovation
• Institutional capacity
• Information disclosure
• MRV (Measurement; Reporting; Verification)
• Public participation & multi-stakeholder engagement
• Economic and social well-being
• Mixed method research

Regulation

Government-Business Relations

Sustainable Development and Climate Change

AI Governance

• Citizen-state relations
• Public service performance
• Managerial turnover
• Research transparency

Discipline: Political Science, International Relations

• International Political Economy
• Firms as Actors
• US International Economic Relations
• The Foreign-Domestic Divide in Emerging Markets

Current/Recent Research Projects

• "New" Finance in Emerging Markets (hedge funds, private equity funds, offshore, leverage)
• Financial Returnees in East Asia
• Interrogating "Green" ETFs and "Green" Bonds

• Labour studies and Industrial relations, particularly in East Asia;
• Multinational management, especially Japanese operations and Japanisation;
• Organisation of work, HRM and gender

Discipline: Political Science, International Relations

• Chinese Foreign Policy
• Health Security in Asia
• Asian security

Current/Recent Research Projects

• Asian Diseases in International Affairs
• China's Subnational Relations
• Australia-China Relations

• Platform urbanism
• Cultural cities/creative cities, critical heritage studies
• Territorialization, political geography
• Social geography, citizenship. mobility

Discipline: International Relations; Comparative Politics

• International Relations of the Asia-Pacific
• Comparative Asian Politics
• Japanese Politics

Current/Recent Research Projects

• Securitisation and Riskification of foreign land purchases in Japan

• Asian urbanism
• Contemporary art and the city
• Politics of biennials
• Enclave urbanism
• Urban controversies
• Cities and the super-rich
• Social networks and the neighbourhood

Discipline:

• Sociocultural Anthropology

Research Interests:

• Social Transformation and Urban Development
• Mobility and Class Politics
• Infrastructures and Spatial Politics
• Science, Technology and Society in Asia
• China Studies

• Spatial demography and population health in global urban context
• Social and environmental determinants of health
• Interactions between built environment, deprivation, healthy lifestyle and non-communicable diseases
• Public health surveillance and disaster risk management
• Urban and housing management for community health actions 

Migration (labor mobility)

Urban development (creative city development)

Social determinants of health (well-being and aging)

Urban big data analytics

• Local and human consequences of international politics
• Status and status hierarchies
• Victimhood and memory
• Norms and norm evasion
• Social and transnational movements
• International relations and comparative politics of East Asia/Asia-Pacific/Indo-Pacific

• Comparative Politics
• Chinese Politics
• Authoritarian Politics
• Public Opinion and Political Behavior
• Political Institutions
• Identity and Ethnic Politics

Philosophy, especially epistemology and ethics.

• Public Policy
• Climate Change
• Disaster Management
• Sustainable Development
• East Asian Studies

• Policy agendas and processes
• Authoritarian regimes
• Globalisation
• Theory of information processing
• Hong Kong Politics

- Applications of Philosophy to Public Policy

- Housing Studies

- Urban Studies

- Hong Kong Studies

• Sustainability
• Innovation and Governance
• e-Government and Smart Cities
• People Management
• Strategic Management
• Executive Education/Training
• SEN Education

• International Development Theories
• Urban Studies
• Land and Citizenship
• Social Movement
• Myanmar/ Burma

Small states in International Relations

Foreign policy and security studies

Foreign policy behaviours of South Asian small states towards India and China

Himalayan small states

• Public Policy
• Computational Social Science
• Urban Study (Culture, Media, Technology, Politics)
• Digital Governance (e.g. Smart cities, AI and Programmable hardware in society)
• China Politics (e.g. People’s Congress, SOEs, State-market relations)